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When talking to people, it is necessary to pay attention to your linguistic skills. I am not talking about the idea of reframing your statements in neutral or non-offensive manors. I am not talking about the idea that you must …Continue reading →

When I talk about pretty things, I am not referring to people or places. While I do appreciate those to be pretty as well, that is not the focus of my efforts here. To put what I mean about liking …Continue reading →

Yesterday I witnessed a thing: a thing that epitomized the need for debate – for persuasive speaking – for presenting an argument and refuting someone else’s argument. If you are not aware, I teach Fundamentals of Speech Communications and am …Continue reading →

We all see people’s posts and tweets that can’t be bothered to spell out anything, sometimes making it almost impossible to read. Twice today, I saw where a simple apostrophe wouldn’t necessarily make the author look smarter, but would have …Continue reading →

Do people really not know that they are assaulting everyone around them when they wear that much perfume? There are few things worse then turning a corner at Walmart and hitting a wall of odor. I always understood that perfume/cologne …Continue reading →

The inability to speak not only in complete sentences but with initials instead of words is the downfall of the western civilization. OMG, BFF, WTF… really… How hard is it to just say the words? There are just as many …Continue reading →